Report from the Cape Town Summit: Day Three
Attendees at the Summit in Cape Town awoke to cooler weather and rain on its third day, Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Devotional by John NixonBut this did not dampen spirits as they gathered for the...
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Grieving Father: Morris Taylor Shares Paintings of His Son
Morris Taylor — 83-year-old musician, artist and professor emeritus at Andrews University — has this week decided to share watercolors painted in memory of his son. Taylor says on his website:For the...
View ArticleReport from the Cape Town Summit: Fourth and Final Day
An apologyI begin my final report of the GC Summit in Cape Town with an apology. In my second report I said the following about Lori Yingling's participation in a panel discussing the issues that...
View ArticleSabbath Un-Sermon: Robert Kane, "Ethics & the Quest for Wisdom"
Robert Kane: "Ethics & the Quest for Wisdom" from Metanexus Institute on Vimeo.This is an oral presentation of Dr. Kane's written paper. Because some may find it more convenient to read instead of...
View ArticleThree Angles News - Loma Linda To Premiere National TV Show
1. Life on the Line, Loma Linda University Health's first national TV show, premieres on PBS's WORLD Channel on April 4, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. ET/PT. It documents the lives of people whose challenging...
View ArticleAdventist Women In Ministry: Progress or Regress?
The Azure Hills Church in Grand Terrace California has been hosting a multi-part series on Adventist history entitled "The Advent Movement: Progress or Regress?" In the video below, Kendra Haloviak...
View ArticleCaring for Words Book Club: Read Well
The Spectrum blog book club is discussing Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies (Eerdmans 2009), by Marilyn McEntyre, professor of medical humanities at UC Davis and the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical...
View ArticleThe Week That Was
Many thanks to all of our readers for making last week one of Spectrum’s best.Our coverage of the conference on sexuality in South Africa sponsored by the General Conference brought 31,062 visits to...
View ArticleBranch Davidians (and Adventists) Revisited in The New Yorker
Malcolm Gladwell talks about Waco survivor Clive Doyle's book in the March 31 New Yorker, and how the FBI's refusal to take David Koresh's theology seriously precipitated the 51-day stand-off and...
View ArticleMy Brief, Abortive Pastoral Career
When I was eight, sitting in church during the sermon one Sabbath, I had an epiphany (although at the time I spelled it “Wow”). I looked up from my etch-a-sketch (early prototype for the iPad) and...
View ArticleCaring for Words Book Club: Stay (or Get) in Conversation
The Spectrum blog book club is discussing Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies (Eerdmans 2009), by Marilyn McEntyre, professor of medical humanities at UC Davis and the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical...
View ArticleThree Angles News - Assault and Robbery on Andrews Campus
1. Three suspects have been arrested and are in the Berrien County jail after a series of assaults and armed robberies on the Andrews University campus on Saturday night, March 29. The campus was on...
View ArticleSabbath Sermon: Brenda Billingy, "Witness Protection"
An additional video: "Ordination - The Case of Pastor Brenda Billingy", can be found here.
View ArticleNew Board Chair and Bylaw Changes Mark Special Constituency Session and Board...
Bradford Newton, the executive secretary of the Pacific Union Conference, was elected chair of the Pacific Union College board April 1, at a Board meeting following a special Constituency session...
View ArticleViewpoint: How Our Understanding of Homosexuality Has Changed
The recent Adventist Cape Town Summit"In God's Image: Scripture, Sexuality, Society" brought the topic of sexuality to the forefront of discussion for our church, and it continues to be talked about in...
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Viewpoint: A Student and His Signs
On March 21, Alvin Maragh began his presentation as a guest speaker for Asian Heritage weekend. On Friday night he delivered a message in which he spoke about homosexuality, homosexual marriage, and...
View ArticleProposed Church Guidelines Would Deny Membership to Practicing LGBT Population
One of the items on the agenda for the Executive Committee of the Seventh-day Adventist Church this week during its biannual leadership meetings is “proposed guidelines in responding to changing...
View ArticleWomen's Ordination "Collateral Damage" in Church's Turn Toward Fundamentalism
Women’s ordination and biblical interpretation were the main topics of the 34th G. Arthur Keough Lectureship program, hosted by the Department of Religion at Washington Adventist University March 28...
View ArticleCaring for Words Book Club: Share Stories
The Spectrum blog book club is discussing Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies (Eerdmans 2009), by Marilyn McEntyre, professor of medical humanities at UC Davis and the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical...
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